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Glyph origin
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Possibly also with  also acting as a semantic component.

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, Western 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to.

This is part of the word family *lVp meaning “flat”, represented by the phonetic component. Compare also.

Definitions

 * 1) leaf; petal
 * 2) era; epoch
 * 3) leaf-like thing
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)
 * 1) leaf-like thing
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)
 * (Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China)

Definitions

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Etymology 1
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From, from.

Probably cognate with 🇨🇬 verb → modern, and with.

Suggested in some sources as possibly cognate with from the way that both sprout and then later fall, and with  from similarities in shape (cf. 🇨🇬). However, the pitch accent patterns are different; and  are both unaccented, while  and  are both accented. This may reflect two disparate *pa roots in the ancient language.

First attested in the  of 712 with the phonetic spelling 波.

Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) leaf, needle, blade (of a plant)

Etymology 2
→ →  →

From.

Noun

 * 1) leaf, needle, blade
 * 2) a season, an age: a shorter period of time within a longer one
 * 3) an administration: the period of time during which a certain person holds a certain office

Counter

 * 1)  counter for flat, thin things such as leaves or paper
 * 2)  counter for small boats

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) leaf

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) leaf

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with mainland 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) leaf

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) leaf

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) leaf